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The Engineering Director (or equivalent) must:

Ensure that safety is taken into account at every stage of the vehicle maintenance and inspection
process to ensure that no new risks are introduced and that all safety requirements will be delivered.
Ensure that the tools and equipment required for inspecting vehicles to the required standards are
provided.
Ensure there are robust processes in place to ensure compliance with environmental requirements.
Ensure that any employee, or any contractor sourced to inspect vehicles, are trained and competent.
Ensure that any local licencing to accredit competence is adopted and individuals inspecting vehicles
are trained and licenced accordingly.
Ensure Engineering Managers and supervisory staff, have the competence and authority to remove
vehicles from service where required.
Ensure Engineering Managers are aware of the requirements and the responsibility for signing off
vehicles as roadworthy following a vehicle safety inspection.

Engineering Manager (or equivalent) must:

Ensure that all engineers required to undertake vehicle safety inspection are trained and competent to
do so.
Ensure that the required number of engineers are trained (and where available, licenced) and
competent to fulfil required vehicle safety inspection processes.
Ensure there is a process to monitor and audit the inspection process on a regular basis to ensure all
aspects of this Global Standard, and local policy, are met.
Ensure all tooling and equipment is maintained and calibrated where required.
In order to ensure correct application of the standard ensure, wherever possible, that the person
carrying out the inspection is not responsible for carrying out repairs.

Global Maintenance Standard: Safety Critical Defects 9